Re: [PATCH] syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Mon Jun 25 2012 - 20:35:08 EST


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:35:03PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Ok, so I'm confused, you want me to apply this patch and then revert a
>> > different one? ÂWhich one, 4a77a5a06ec66ed05199b301e7c25f42f979afdc?
>>
>> b56a39ac conflicts and is replaced with that patch.
>> 4a77a5a0 should stay, as it fixes an actual problem, even with the old
>> code, I think.
>
> Ok, I'm even more confused now. ÂMaybe I just need more coffee.
>
> Can you list what exactly I should do here? ÂShould I apply this patch?
> Revert some other patch? ÂWhich one(s)?

Revert b56a39ac (return -EINVAL) and apply the patch from Jan. The
problem b56a39ac solved , is replaced by other logic in Jan's patch.

Kay
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